History 615:
Early Modern Europe
Fall 2008, Tuesday 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Synopsis:
An introduction to classic interpretations, recent scholarship, and sources in intellectual history, cultural history, and the history of science, c. 1450-1700. Topics will include humanism and scholarship, natural philosophy and science, witchcraft and the occult, the arts, the organization of literary and intellectual life, and circulation of knowledge between different disciplinary and national contexts. Assignments will include a review, an annotated bibliography and bibliographical essay, and a historiographical synthesis. Interested students may continue with a research seminar in the spring. A reading list will be posted online over the summer at: http://people.umass.edu/ogilvie/615/.
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